Re:Shopify takes down Ye website selling swastika shirts aft...
by nelblu on Tuesday February 11, 2025 @12:50PM
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I'm sure some can't. I didn't mean to say that, I was just telling how I perceived it. In fact, I warn my Hindu friends against using the Hindu swastika on their cars or on their houses here in the West, just so that they don't confuse people here.
Re:Shopify takes down Ye website selling swastika shirts aft...
by kstrauser on Tuesday February 11, 2025 @12:54PM
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I'm very sympathetic to both groups here.
1. It's an old symbol. Buddhists had it first, and I don't blame them for wanting to hang onto it.
2. Regardless of context, I don't want a picture of me on the Internet playing and having fun in front of a swastika. By the time you get to the part of the explanation that would show you're not actually a neo-Nazi, people will have stopped listening (if they ever did in the first place).
I don't think there are any unreasonable people in that story. It's just an awful situation.
https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Bay-Area-summer-camp-...
> A California summer camp tucked away in a woodsy pocket of the Silicon Valley abruptly canceled all summer sessions after several staff members quit over a controversy around a swastika symbol on one of the buildings.
> The camp administration explained in its letter that the house had three tiles, each about 12-by-12 inches, with Buddhist swastikas and a lotus embedded in them. When the home was constructed, the symbol would have been considered good luck.